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Original post by ozzoright Though combat in MMORPG's has evolved since then, it would be alot more fun to fight monsters in real-time, that is, control where you move and what you do at that exact point in time than just target a monster, click a button and sit back and watch. Though this would would require additional bandwith as well as a load of other problems I don't know (I know close to NOTHING on networking/online game development).

Turbine is trying to create 'impression' of real-time combat (it's probably more accurate than actually call it 'real time' as it's to some degree faked) for their Dungeons&Dragons Online. If you run a search on DDO forums, you'll find a few posts from developers detailing what tricks they use to achieve this.